Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Montenegro and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Todd Rundgren,
Juan Atkins,
Pagans,
The Stooges,
Minny Pops,
The Barracudas,
Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Accadde A,
Ten City,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scrapy,
Zero Boys,
E-Dancer,
Trumans Water,
AZ,
Barrington Levy,
Mantronix,
Piero Umiliani,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amon Düül II,
Althea and Donna,
Maleditus Sound,
Erasure,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jeff Mills,
Amon Düül,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Brass Construction,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Doors,
Big Daddy Kane,
Joyce Sims,
Peter & Gordon,
Schoolly D,
Easy Going,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aswad,
Sister Nancy,
Marcia Griffiths,
a-ha,
OOIOO,
Sam Rivers,
Jacques Brel,
Dennis Brown,
Cluster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
R.M.O.,
Wasted Youth,
Harmonia,
Rakim,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The United States of America,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Searchers,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Walker Brothers,
the Sonics,
La Düsseldorf,
Black Bananas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.